FURTHER COMMENTS ON PORTRAYING THE ACCURACY OF VIOLENCE PREDICTIONS

被引：36

作者：

MOSSMAN, D

机构：

[1] Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University, Dayton, 45401-0927, OH

来源：

LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR | 1994年 / 18卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1007/BF01499177

中图分类号：

D9 [法律]; DF [法律];

学科分类号：

0301 ;

摘要：

Hart, Webster, and Menzies (1993) recently offered several recommendations for describing the accuracy of violence predictions using 2 x 2 contingency tables. This Comment describes some problems with their recommendations and suggests that researchers use receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to quantify prediction accuracy.

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页码：587 / 593

页数：7

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